Blossom time

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blossom, Fruit, Ink drawing, Life, Memory, Sketching challenge, Trees2 Comments

I keep finding old photos of my drawings over the last few months. This was day 25 of our Urban Sketchers challenge to draw pictures in lockdown. Over the months I’ve had more drawing practice than I had for several years before.

I notice the tricycle, that had to have new back wheels one of the old ones collapsed and the other one was almost rusted through. And the copper coloured windmill that fell apart in a heavy wind!

The blossom was pink and white cherry and pear blossom. Billowing and beautiful, we had abundant fruit this year. Only five or six months to wait before it comes back.

Quick sketch

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Carlos Acosta, Drawing, Fun, Having a go, Life drawing, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Fifteen minute sketch, #skyportraitartistoftheyear. I just tried drawing Carlos Acosta in mid air. Bit scrappy, charcoal pencil…

The winner of the competition, Curtis Holder is doing a ten thousand pounds commission portrait of Acosta for display in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

I wish the sitters were set up so you could watch TV and paint or draw them, it’s an enjoyable programme.

Eddie Izzard drawing

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Drawing, Drawn from an image on the net, Eddie Izzard, Fine liner pen, Fun, Picture, Sketching, Twenty five minutesLeave a comment

Just watching#skyportraitartistoftheyear Eddie Izzard was the sitter. Found a reasonably close image to what they are painting today off the Internet. I haven’t worked out how to find images of the sitters on the Web page. I must be doing something wrong. Anyway this was a quick 25 minute sketch. Using a unipin 0.8 black fine line pen. Which was running out

Dove

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dove, Drawing, Helo, Icon, Love, Peace, Safe, Sketch, Sketch app, SymbolLeave a comment

Someday Peace and Love will be more important than War. Nature and the Environment will become recognised for how important they are. Maybe symbols of peace, like the dove, will get the message across. We need to take these concepts seriously. We need to stop being selfish and realise we shouldn’t be self centred. People in all walks of life, in this country, and abroad, are struggling. War wastes resources and ruins lives. We need to support each other not attack and deplore. As the song says. Let there be peace all over the world…

pink

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Learning, photoshop7, Practice, Random objects, Sketching, Still lifeLeave a comment

Well its sort of finished….digital drawing on wacom tablet- oh Im out of practice….Random found pink objects with a green background for contrast and beige speaker and table top to show up the pink better…

a few years ago I would have been able to do better than this.. you know what practice does? It makes you do things better. In my case I used to do digital drawings virtually every day. I knew what buttons to press, what brushes to choose. So now I have to learn again and im definitly going to watch some videos on using photoshop and get a later version, this was done in Photoshop7… my very old version, I just don’t like the idea of paying a monthly fee to use the newer versions….

Digital drawing WIP

Posted on December 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitsl draeing, Drawing, Random objects, Sketching, Still life, Stylus, Wacom, Work in progressLeave a comment

Trying to draw on the computer using my Wacom tablet. It’s hard because I usually doodle with a finger on my phone or with a stylus on a tablet. I actually find this harder to do, and I need practice. This is for a #bandofsketchers prompt for today. If I get it done I will post it here. Back to work…

Turning a blurry photo into an abstract.

Posted on December 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Design, Life, Oily, Photo, Photodirector, Picture, SmearedLeave a comment

With oone filter. I used this to show how you can change a photo using just one filter. In this case the cat was transformed into an apparent oil painting abstract by using the second style filter in the Photodirector app. This smears out the details into swirls and patterns. It also makes the edges of the areas of colour more obvious.

Purple, today’s prompt

Posted on December 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Drying, Felt pens, Picture, Purple, Settee, Sketch, WetLeave a comment

My purple coat that I walked nine miles in. It’s still wet! #bandofsketchers prompt was purple. Sitting on the settee with a stripey cover on it. I’m surprised how mant purple felt pens I’ve got. It is one of my favourite colours. X

Cat toys story

Posted on December 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Humour, Joy, Life, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Story, ToysLeave a comment

Run from the cat

Bounce away

Scuttle mouse

Flap your ears

Fly through the air

Roll under the sofa

Scatter and sway

Never get caught

By the cat!

Another butterfly

Posted on December 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital glitter, Drawing, Fun, Layers, Paper cut snowflakeLeave a comment

Digital drawing on top of a photo of a paper cut snowflake. Then I put it through some filters and added digital glitter. I must be channeling summer! I’m pleased how it has a three dimensional feel.

Mallaband-Brown

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